CBS4 Denver breaks this;
(CBS/AP) DENVER The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has identified the person who accessed a national criminal database and retrieved information that eventually appeared in a campaign ad by Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez against opponent Bill Ritter. CBS4 has learned that person is a federal law enforcement agent from Colorado.
Western Slope.
Just as the major newspapers on the Front Range are digging into this story on their main news pages to Thursday's editorial in the Denver Post,a couple of hundred miles away, "Beauprez-gate” was also landing on the front page of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Various, on FBI joining hunt into illegal NCIC access, confirmed by CBI;
...the Colorado Bureau of Investigation has determined someone accessed an FBI database to obtain information the Bob Beauprez campaign used in a TV ad. Using such information for purposes other than law enforcement is a violation of federal and state law.
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